Intercepted
Ukrainian director Oksana Karpovych’s quietly powerful documentary ‘Intercepted’ combines bleakly beautiful, defiantly hopeful images of her war-ravaged homeland with recordings of phone calls made by invading Russian soldiers.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 21, 2024 | Berlin 2024, Berlinale 2024, Festivals |
Ukrainian director Oksana Karpovych’s quietly powerful documentary ‘Intercepted’ combines bleakly beautiful, defiantly hopeful images of her war-ravaged homeland with recordings of phone calls made by invading Russian soldiers.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 21, 2024 | Berlin 2024, Berlinale 2024, Featured, Festivals |
Martin Scorsese pays personal homage to visionary film-maker duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in David Hinton’s formally traditional but thorough documentary ‘Made in England’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 20, 2024 | Berlinale 2024, Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2025 |
Real historical murder cases inspired ‘The Devil’s Bath’, a relentlessly grim but atmospheric psychological horror thriller from Austrian writer-director duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 19, 2024 | Festivals, Berlinale 2024, Spotlight |
Mischievous writer-director Bruno Dumont combines visually dazzling ‘Star Wars’ parody with small-town French farce in his admirably ambitious but muddled space opera ‘The Empire’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 18, 2024 | Featured, Berlinale 2024, Festivals |
German director Matthias Glasner’s autobiographical, darkly funny, emotionally raw ensemble drama ‘Dying’ plays like a three-hour family therapy session.
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